the lights look really good. I was thinking of self tinting my tail lights as that looks pretty sick. One thing i would love to learn to do is wet sand properly. Do you have any tips as far as that goes? Lastly, what did you use to make those labels on your bottles?
For sanding, keep area nicely lubricated, use nice even pressure sanding strokes and keep checking up on your work. When dong something like I did smooth them down till you have a even sanded texture and dont see little dots, like you do in one of my pics where I did not sand the orange peal all the way down. The labels I just make on my computer, I got water prof labels off ebay and print them on my later printer. Thanks! haha, I was thinking about getting one but not really in the market for one right now. Thanks!
Thanks Misha. Yep, that is my baby! I thought you had a Candy White GTI that you had detailed while back that looked great when you were done? Thanks, after practicing on a scrap panel and trying on purpose to mess up on that and burn through paint and doing everything wrong I realized you have to try to really screw up bad. As long as you are steady, and paying attention it is nothing scary about using a rotary. There are some issues I had like on the roof the rotary wanted to hop alot and I could not figure out why, used the same pad and amount of polish on the side and it was smooth, smooth as well on the hood..so dont know what was going on there...but I got through it.:gidiup:
Glad I could help...I first thought of it when I bought Pinnacle Clay Lube. Unlike many other clay lubes it is VERy slippery, but leaves soapy residue if you just wipe it off, you actually have to rinse or rewash...then I started experimenting (pinnacle clay lube isn't cheap)... I'm not ready to buy Insignis yet, but one day I will...
Thanks! Thanks, w99 is GREAT! I had ALOT of sticky tar coating on the barrels of the wheels due to all the paving they are doing around my place, i sprayed some on the barrels and that stuff just cleaned right now, no questions asked. Also on the my RG wheel brush it was coated in that sticky tar junk and could not get it off with Opt APC, put a few oz of w99 in a bucket, filled it with water so the whole brush was in the solution, let it sit for 5 min and that gunk just came right off. Great stuff!
LOL that GTI wasn't mine. I drive a GMC sierra But yours looks superb and thanks for providing insight on the 3m DiNoc. I'm looking into that stuff. Cheers!
You went from working on a scrap bmw trunk to this full detail in a matter of months? You didn't have a learning curve whatsoever ... awesome work Ankeet. It looks incredible!!!
Thanks, I am going to be getting more 3m DiNoc to do the B-pillars. haha, yep only practicing a few time son that scrap trunk and i jumped into it...not as scary as people make it out to be...
wow!!! now that's a hobbiest detailer's weekend!!! how does the scholl compare to say menz 85 as a final polish? interesting you applied SV CF by hand, i always use a DA with white or red CCS
